5.0.2.21 Release Notes

RELEASE DATE: Thu, 06 Feb 2020

Maxwell

Changes

• License files are now saved into a “v5” folder to avoid license conflicts with previous major versions of Maxwell Render and demo or expired licenses (for more information, check this page, bullet #8: Licensing FAQ )

• Update license: append by default.

• Updated RLM server to version 13.0BL2.

Fixes

• Maxwell and Studio did not evaluate referenced MXM textures correctly.

• Triangle ID channel was not saved in embed channels mode if the format does not allow for layers.

• Crash in OSX rendering meshes with the subdivision modifier.

• Infinite loop using MaxwellScatter extension with an object that also uses MaxwellScatter (now the second level of scattering is ignored).

• Maxwell Render took a long time to start rendering.

• LDR images used in IBL looked washed or with wrong colors.

• Reference loader loaded instances from the main scene instead of referenced scene when there were original objects with the same name in the main and the referenced scene.

• Linux installer distributed .so files that could conflict with user system libraries.

• FIRE crashed (CPU and GPU) changing displacement from Flat to Catmull/loop.

• Crash in OSX in multithreaded voxelization.

• Crash rendering Light Groups + Color Multilight. Now it changes to Intensity Multilight mode if there are Multilight groups involved.

Improvements

• Support for HDPI monitors has been improved. You’ll notice crispy text and icons and other general improvements.

• Console warnings for bad material map configuration created by plug-ins.

Known Issues

• Wrong data issues with TIFF images and LZW compression in Linux platforms (including Maxwell Cloud nodes).

• MaxwellScatter extension ignores the MaxwellScatter modifier applied to the scattered objects (if they have) to avoid infinite loops.

Maxwell GPU

Fixes

• Some channels (alpha, material, object, position, z-buffer) could show artifacts.

• Procedural textures could crash on GPU and produce wrong material assignments.

• Texture properties (Brightness, contrast, saturation, hue) did not work as intended in GPU.

• Crash rendering scenes with unsupported procedural geometry extensions (grass, volumetrics, particles).

Improvements

• Object transformation changes with FIRE GPU don’t re-voxelize the whole scene, making FIRE GPU more responsive to scene edition.

Known Issues

• Dielectrics materials don’t behave as intended in some scenes.

Maxwell Studio

Fixes

• FIRE window saved a corrupt image to disk.

• Studio didn't save a thumbnail (for the MXS saved file) when the user launches GPU FIRE.

• Studio crashed after the quality of FIRE was risen by the user.

• The MXS files were generated with a corrupted preview image.

• Studio crashed when saving the file after FIRE has been launched with quality 7 or higher.

• The viewport selection, drag & drop, focus tool, etc. didn’t work properly with HDPI monitors.

• Crash moving Studio between HDPI / non-HDPI monitors.

• Scaling objects could crash Studio.

• Studio crashed on Mac when right-clicking on an MXS file in Finder > Open with... and choosing Studio.

• Local browser blocked and force-closed when we chose “outdoor ies” folder in Studio.

• FIRE GPU vignetting was always “on”.

• When opening Studio through CMD with -mxs, the viewport got overexposed.

• Studio didn’t read the defaultlayout_v5.stlay file from the installation folder “layouts”.

Improvements

• No need to save the current scene to disk before sending it to Maxwell Cloud/Network (it now exports to a temporal mxs file).

• Support for HDPI monitors has been improved. You’ll notice crispy text and icons and other general improvements.

Known Issues

• Resources Browser may crash Studio on widget resize.

MXED

Improvements

• Support for HDPI monitors has been improved.

• Added two new material preview scenes: attenuation (specifically for testing the attenuation distance of the transparent materials) and drapery 2 (intended to test fabrics).

Network

Changes

• Cloud job/render IDs are now shown in the jobs list in the same column. The cloud job name is shown in its own column.

Fixes

• The Network Manager could not find the mximerge tool in OSX.

• The preview showed a white overlay in OSX

Improvements

• The “Buy cloud time” link points to the Maxwell Cloud area of the webshop, instead of the global webshop page.

• Support for HDPI monitors has been improved.

• User panel close button added

Python Editor

Improvements

• Support for HDPI monitors has been improved.